I'm sure many people will resolve to make changes in their lives in 2005, perhaps affected by the calamity in South East Asia, perhaps spurred into doing something they'd already been planning, perhaps just driven by a need to help somebody else.

The Telegraph has been running a series of articles with 17 interviews with people who have made a change in their lives, sometimes forced in to it by circumstance, sometimes just by the need to give something, read them here:Part one, part two, part three.

If you are in the UK and wanted to make a change, to find out how you could help click on the link and take a look: Year of the Volunteer 2005